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The spruce beauty of the slender red line.

— Alexander William Kinglake

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Cf. William Howard Russell

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Beauty

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Sticks and stones may break my bones But words will never hurt me.

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Whose veil is unremoved
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Beauty itself doth of itself persuade
The eyes of men without an orator.

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